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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading faster than efforts to contain it, urging the international community to step up its response.
“The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the fastest-spreading Ebola epidemic ever recorded,” Guterres said in a post on US social media company X on Thursday.
“It’s growing faster & wider than the response to contain it,” he said, adding that the outbreak “can be stopped.”
“We know how to contain Ebola and save lives. The world must urgently step up action to get it under control,” Guterres said, TRT Afrika reported.
As of Aug. 26, the country had reported 5,713 confirmed cases, including 2,744 deaths, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
The latest figures represented an increase of 57 confirmed cases and 29 deaths from the previous day.
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